tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-55445452295594795572023-11-16T22:51:51.841+11:00passion84paperMarcy Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00113063372913436089noreply@blogger.comBlogger275125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5544545229559479557.post-35635370165836563222012-06-22T18:37:00.002+10:002012-06-22T18:53:30.248+10:00A CREATIVE DREAM COME TRUE... ME, IN TIM HOLTZ CLASS!<div style="text-align: center;">
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OKAYEE FOLKS here THE post of the year...<br />
settle in with a cuppa and ...may I suggest a<i> family</i> sized block of Caburys...<br />
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Firstly let me appologise its been such a long time since my last long ago blog post ...</div>
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well ... I have had a dreadful couple of non artistic months. My creative mojo went seriously awol. </div>
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I lost a dear friend to cancer and had another invoved in a serious car accident thankfully now<br />
sheis back at home and on the mend. That coupled with some other issues just saw me aimless and disinterested in creating anything. I guess we all go through patches of this sort but this was new to me.<br />
It seemed my spark had just disappeared but ....thankfully it's back...</div>
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and what a way to set it ablazing ...</div>
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a creative dream of mine<br />
forfilled...</div>
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when, I was given the opportunity<br />
by <a href="http://www.thescrapbookinghut.com.au/store/Default.asp">The Scrapbooking Hut </a><br />
to attend a full day workshop </div>
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with<br />
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I boarded a plane sunday for the class on Monday</div>
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traveled by myself from my lil home</div>
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in Wagga Wagga, regional NSW </div>
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to the big smoke... Coogee Bay, Sydney.</div>
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To say I was nervous would be an <i>understatement</i> ... </div>
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to say I was merely excited would be <i>equally an understatement</i>...</div>
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to say I was completely<i> freaked out of my everloving mind and </i></div>
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<i>I'd been counting down the sleeps like a 7 year awaiting christmas morning </i></div>
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<i>would be more accurate!!! LOL </i></div>
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Oh yes... those who know me on Facebook </div>
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would know in the past couple weeks I made a bit of a "GOOG" of myself</div>
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in the lead up to this event. It was widely know I was I bit dilerious about the prospect </div>
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of meeting Mr Holtz and learning what ever he could teach me. </div>
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Many of my "friends" have known for mny years how much I admired Tim's many talents </div>
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and the wonderful Ranger products he uses. Some of those "friends" </div>
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made more than one mention of my wetting my pants or drowning in a puddle </div>
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of my own drool in front of the class and its highly thought of teacher. </div>
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In all seriousness though the idea of me , lil country bumpkin </div>
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whos taught more classes than she'd ever taken, being taught in person by </div>
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an Icon of the industry, like Tim Holtz, was indeed both a humbling and daunting thought. </div>
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Couple that with that with the fact I dont travel alone much </div>
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and I knew that Id be representing our local online store there, </div>
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Thankfully a good hearted lady by the name of Jo Kinder put me in contact<br />
with a bunch of amazing design team and store owning ladies who were also attending<br />
I could share the excitement and accomodation with. So on sunday night, after a plane and two bus rides<br />
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I finally arrived at the Coogee Bay Hotel and met up <a href="https://www.facebook.com/sandra.h.staples">Sandra Henderson Staples</a>, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/tracey.shenton">Tracey Shenton</a>, Heidi McCallum and Andrea Cosier. A big thankyou to those girls for taking me under their wing and for sharing their diggs both accomadation and
otherwise with me!!! Oh and for sharing Heidi's baked goods with me as well nothing like a few peices of mars bar slice to create a bond between crafty women!!! LOL<br />
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<b>Another riverina local Kylie and her lovel mum, who run a shop in Gundagai </b></div>
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<b>Kylie is in big trouble when next I see her for letting me have a moustashe in this pic! LOL</b></div>
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So after a hastey breakfast I arrived running to the class room and<br />
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<b><i>YAYYY!!! ITS FINALLY TIMMY DAY!!!</i></b></div>
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The class rooms set up imaculately<br />
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A craft mat and a Ranger apron await each participant and on a big screen </div>
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He welcomes us all and chats a bit about his trip so far "down under".</div>
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within the hour, I reach accross the barrell of the heat gun<br />
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<i> I half hope my burn scars... it'll be an nice keepsake!!! </i><br />
It never looked like I was gunna get that signed breast<br />
to turn into a tattoo that I dreamed of ! <i>(kidding! LOL)</i><br />
I had to settle for my signed Trinket box and Compendium book !! Raotfl)<br />
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<b>My favourite photo of the dayof myself and Tim Holtz taken by the lovely Rachel Grieg, despite photobombing Heidi's uninvited toncil shot ...cheeky bugger! LOL I had two more photo's with Tim but not only did I look like an awestruck rabbit in the headlights, I was also displaying more chins than a chinese phone book so I will just have to be happy with this memento.</b></div>
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was layered and packed with all its embellishments in order of their soon to be creation. There were a few eager beavers who shuffled up their kits looking, before finding out this vital information... to which Tim chuckled and mentioned it didnt pay to be one of those "over achievers" you have in every class that try and get two steps in front... ahhh <i>NO PROBS HERE I thought!</i> LOL </div>
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We worked from one tag to the next pretty solidly. I didnt stop as I wanted to make the most of it all I distressed and inked edges, used extra stamps etc because I wanted to go home with the finished product... didnt want hubby going so what else did you do in a whole day! LOL</div>
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">Look what my biggest boy did last night ...He made perfect enchilladas!!!<br />
We were all so impressed !!<br />
He knew hed made it and we were in awe because we had to photograph his efforts ...<br />
all the BEST <i>"master chief'</i> ed meals are photographed, in keeping with what has become our most recent quirky family tradition! LOL</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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Daniel did such a great job. He read and followed instructions with a minum of supervision and fuss. Whats more he was enthusistic and stayed on task despite two lots of surprize visiters that collectively bought with them 5 more kids to add to the equasion. Amazing actually when you think there were a 3 year old and a 18 month old buzzing about his feet. Not to mention a slightly tormenting 10 year old brother undermining Daniels efforts using his best Mr Squiggle's BLACKBOARD voice to pester with an endless chant of <i>"HURRY UPPPP!!! "</i> and a stream of off the cuff comments about how we'd "be sure to get food poisoning, if we didnt starve first " ahhh brotherly love eh?</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">It was just so heartwarming to watch Daniel move around from one task to the next with such determination and focus. Not bad for a kid who has had people knocking him down, trying to limit his potential for years with labels. Quite reassuring watching him seamlessly perform what seem like basic tasks that would have once been beyond him. We can let him use a knife WITHOUT reminding him that knife throwing is unacceptable and that fingers need to remain attached to the end of hands at all times!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">I retell these storys not to lessen my child but to encourage other parents similarly frustrated to keep their hope firmly in place. I cannot count the years I had spent following him around his everyday routines coaching, refocusing & reminding him what to do to get ready for school. Now I can look back and laugh a little, at having to remind him everyday which direction the bathroom was when he'd be busy wandering of deep in thought. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">I still worried feverishly, right up till last years reports about his abilitiy to organise his own homework, assighnments and test revision because I lost my ability to micro mangage when he went to high school. He had a rough start in year 7 coping with organisation, timetables and constantly changing teachers. As frustrated as I was from cranky teachers phone calls and meetings I could empathsise and stratigise new solutions because it had been my downfall and a constant struggle for me my entire time in high school. I was overwhemed with his report card at the end of the year, he did amazing last year. Almost perfect comments on his report which included an A for maths and science b's and C's. My <i>"absent minded Professor"</i>, a nickname coined by four teachers from three different schools, was/ IS becoming more confident and "coming into his own" as they say.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">He is only 14, <b><i>I know there is a way to go ...</i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;">but I am happy because I feel finally he is 14 and he doesn't seem to struggle with the outside world and conformity as much. He's found his niche with a good bunch of friends, he shows initiative, maturity and even ... wisdom! Wise beyond his years sometimes, on occasion Id go as far as to say he, appears far wiser </div><div style="text-align: center;">than his own <i>late 30 something</i> mother.... only sometimes! LOL </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">I just feel grateful and humbled that he's growing into himself and who he's going to be more and more each day.... ... As too are the hairs on his chinny chin chin, that he wont shave or let his mother wax cause she's offered believe me she's offered! LOL </div><div style="text-align: center;">( rereading that line I imagine it must be hard and slightly embarrassing to have his mum sometimes!)</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">I also love we have almost an empathy link ...we are friends to a point, we share a certain warpped sence of humour and can enjoy things togther on a level no one else in the family shares ...it can be very special. I do know I will have to hold on for grim life to keep the connection through the turbulent teen age years ahead. For the moment a love of DR WHO, artistic endevours, Percy Jackson & The hunger games novels binds us together ...oh that and waiting<i><b> till the HUNGER GAMES movire comesout on the 17th of March!!!</b></i> But I digress... LOL</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">I think I am having <i>that realization</i> our 1st baby is well on his way to being a man.... </div><div style="text-align: center;">and NOT JUST CAUSE HE COOKED <b>EXCELLENT ENCHILADAS</b>!!! </div><div style="text-align: center;">( Is it too soon to encourage him to attempt Thai cuisine yet? LOL)</div><div style="text-align: center;">In all seriousness, we are moving into the next scary sets of milestones I dared not think of, let alone worry about. They seemed so far away... like maybe we'd never get there. Things like mobile phone ownership, driving ( arghhhh! ) part time jobs, curfews and birds & bees issues </div><div style="text-align: center;">( oh gawd did I just type that.. I'm such a prude! LOL) </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">I am proud he has become so strong and more mature, although he could stop for a while with the "growing" bit as he is already a smidge under 6 ft with a size 11mens foot !!! (damn hormones in the chicken myth may have some truth after all!) well all I wanted to say was OMG I am so blessed to have my big boy and both my lil ones too. I think like allot of mums in the back of our mind we think maybe the love lessens as they move out of baby /cute little boy stage but it doesn't just like the child.... it grows as well !!!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"> Over Id say the last 12 months I have come to realise I have made a couple parenting foe par's one was not making my boys take on responsibilities to teach them the value of things like money, hard work, their parents and ... a disinfected inhabitable bedroom! It seems to be we have seen a some major progress in our eldest since trusting him not to loose a mobile phone, run over his foot with the lawn mower or get knocked off his bike riding to a friends place or what we call the "big" shops! LOL I just wanted to put it out there that sometimes its "good" parenting that lets go... <i>so they can grow</i>! Hopefully one mum like me might read this and have a think about the way they mollycoddle! LOL<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Also I show you a card I made for a friend who asked me to make one for a special occassion but my mind being the void it is couldnt remember whether she asked for a christening card or just a baby card so I made a "convertable" card ! LOL</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The inside of the card read something like "a baby is the greatest blessing bestowed on a family"</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Which could be on a christening card or a new baby card...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">so I planned a change of title depending on what was needed (turns out christening LOL)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiV-JhFGhxifEJaFoESrWTVYtGCF-hEZ_Yh_HBmV2ZglVOXWCJUJW6nyOr8VNWZcL3roaldohby7lPAY1lgxnMMGEHh4kx4f0sW7pqHG66K6ZsBrDDsTWHT2vy95CGkWRgMh2OGkwAfNt1J/s1600/IMG_6814.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiV-JhFGhxifEJaFoESrWTVYtGCF-hEZ_Yh_HBmV2ZglVOXWCJUJW6nyOr8VNWZcL3roaldohby7lPAY1lgxnMMGEHh4kx4f0sW7pqHG66K6ZsBrDDsTWHT2vy95CGkWRgMh2OGkwAfNt1J/s320/IMG_6814.JPG" width="251" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCroKi4jdvgN78EMY8Q2WbdI7VSvzdGO7AZcCARV_3ACLkv5tAAPvtb0_2jJrpITC36jceZdAYBDVzewmqCoPJsIWekM5HBKy4dy1-W2gnN65BjA9zxXT2Bnh2-jfy6j-Ft2wWWLx8sSTf/s1600/IMG_6812.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCroKi4jdvgN78EMY8Q2WbdI7VSvzdGO7AZcCARV_3ACLkv5tAAPvtb0_2jJrpITC36jceZdAYBDVzewmqCoPJsIWekM5HBKy4dy1-W2gnN65BjA9zxXT2Bnh2-jfy6j-Ft2wWWLx8sSTf/s320/IMG_6812.JPG" width="232" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> <b>CHRISTENING CARD OR NEW BABY CONGRATULATIONS </b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b><br />
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I also wanted to share an art journal page </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I did recently, but during my last post blogger said NO!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">So I gave up LOL but here it is ...</div><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> (my appologies if you've seen it on Facebook)</div><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgui1TbsAMWRBkgrptjqtQPAr26RRGnZ-4FFuV97KL8_WXsG0evuc2WUz8VJr3PYf6YjIR1zvb2PTinPYVsIJUTqZ1Yqo4Hagz2qoj0eV9I08kDwcMIXIzUvj_Dr3eusFEymyQ0zm2iwV13/s1600/4-02-2012+12-16-11+AM.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="256" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgui1TbsAMWRBkgrptjqtQPAr26RRGnZ-4FFuV97KL8_WXsG0evuc2WUz8VJr3PYf6YjIR1zvb2PTinPYVsIJUTqZ1Yqo4Hagz2qoj0eV9I08kDwcMIXIzUvj_Dr3eusFEymyQ0zm2iwV13/s320/4-02-2012+12-16-11+AM.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">STAMPOTIQUE - Amy wilson stamp</div><div style="text-align: center;">I wrote the words down in a list and then thought about what I wanted to say and endevoured t say it using the words in the list. Each time I used a word I ticked it off the list and eventually used them all at least once. My hand writing is the bane of my existance, I dislike my chicken scratchings terribly </div><div style="text-align: center;">but I love the way this has turned out.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Then next step was to create the background. Which consisted of misting three Glimmer mists onto the cardstock. I then used the La Blanche stamp with the mists as my ink . To do this I misted onto plastic and then picked up the ink with my stamp stamping onto the cardstock. The Tattered Angel stamps were embossed onto Prima PP and cut out then stuck onto the background cardstock. The face I drew</div><div style="text-align: center;">in sharpie which is waterproof and painted with acrylic paint. I used the sharpie </div><div style="text-align: center;">and accented extra areas in her hair I wanted to stand out.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><span style="color: purple;">:)</span></b></span></div>Marcy Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00113063372913436089noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5544545229559479557.post-55712138519460665672012-02-02T02:14:00.009+11:002012-02-02T02:23:21.228+11:00WELCOME TO THE NEW YEAR...<div style="text-align: center;">.... and as usual...</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">I'm Late! LOL</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">so where to start again with this poor neglected blog well ...</div><div style="text-align: center;">Christmas was good ...</div><div style="text-align: center;">we went down to Tuross Head with my mum and Dad<br />
the 3 boys were happy Santa found them and they got spoilt!</div><div style="text-align: center;">That was the first week and a bit covered then is was back to Wagga Wagga for ...</div><div style="text-align: center;">THE LONGEST SCHOOL HOLIDAYS OF MY LIFE!!!! LOL</div><div style="text-align: center;">Will never do the holiday at the start again !!!</div><div style="text-align: center;">So I may possibilly sound a little over enthusiastically joyfully when I say....</div><div style="text-align: center;">everyone is now happily back @ school!!!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Daniel is in year 9 at KOORINGAL HIGH</div><div style="text-align: center;">Connor in year 5 at STURT PRIMARY</div><div style="text-align: center;">& </div><div style="text-align: center;">Jarred in year 3 at LAKE ALBERT PRIMARY</div><div style="text-align: center;">and mummy is just starting to play & is back smiling .... and making messes in her office !!!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">I am going to be lazy and race though what I have been up to in the interim ... </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglcTHe45YPmQzXH68mBOI76KAqiyD2opmWEwFR8lkUchfyL-8JMqR57tU2kPuN64wIgsLnshluehVeYvf-Qats3Y1KRp2Gery7B59lQjTGiAvwOfSmn9EvN6_ziPGcZwAfvx-GCzT0dbiZ/s1600/IMG_6771.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglcTHe45YPmQzXH68mBOI76KAqiyD2opmWEwFR8lkUchfyL-8JMqR57tU2kPuN64wIgsLnshluehVeYvf-Qats3Y1KRp2Gery7B59lQjTGiAvwOfSmn9EvN6_ziPGcZwAfvx-GCzT0dbiZ/s320/IMG_6771.JPG" width="228" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">I did this for a art journal page still a WIP atm...<br />
I love it a friend says it looks like she has intestines in her skull! LOL <br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">I thought I might submit it to Cafe Press cause I looked for a an "art brain" shirt </div><div style="text-align: center;">but couldnt find anything I liked although I liked a shirt that described me to a T </div><div style="text-align: center;">something along the line of " I do NOT Math therefore I ART!" </div><div style="text-align: center;">but I bought one in white I am going to tie dye that says </div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><b>" EARTH WITHOUT ART is just... EH!"</b></i></div><div style="text-align: center;">COOL AYE?!</div><div style="text-align: center;">so.... </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>OUT OF MY ART BRAIN OOZED..... </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfdwxY9n0NzBfRMQ0bbr5IzHl85E34ly81U3Ctbxm8Klx6Pt-czlS9o6FnN2YKM5ibWR3mU11IV3jP9FRUFU9LCej4rBLUAiiDtIRzy0P69MoxlYvT0r0QDenYyWAOiQPnpMzMMbUc56yu/s1600/IMG_0280.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfdwxY9n0NzBfRMQ0bbr5IzHl85E34ly81U3Ctbxm8Klx6Pt-czlS9o6FnN2YKM5ibWR3mU11IV3jP9FRUFU9LCej4rBLUAiiDtIRzy0P69MoxlYvT0r0QDenYyWAOiQPnpMzMMbUc56yu/s640/IMG_0280.JPG" width="307" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"> I finally finished my Art doll for my friend Natalie on and off it took about 6 months! </div><div style="text-align: center;">Shes made of a real cotton reel, embossed foils, beads, metal embellishments organza bag, clay </div><div style="text-align: center;">Twiddleybitz shadow box and German Scrap embossed borders and wings.</div><div style="text-align: center;">Oh and her ballet shoes are Fimo Oven bake clay from Scraptivate.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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so thats about it for now I am working on 4 art journal pages and playing along with <a href="http://milliande.ning.com/group/theartjournalers/forum/topics/2158107:Topic:528137">MILLANDE'S SEED JOURNAL </a> I am still struggling to loose my careful meticulous nature despite the fact art journalling is meant to be a carefree organic freeing process... OH well old habits die hard and I am enjoying the challenge of creating my own version of milliandes journal prompts. I must have been doing okay I got my first page selected as a feature in the first week ...I consider that a huge honour which hasnt happened to me before in the 5 or 6 years I have been putting tprojects in the gallery so that was an AWESOME start to 2012!</div><div style="height: 140px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center; width: 140px;"></div><div style="height: 140px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center; width: 140px;"></div><div style="height: 140px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center; width: 140px;"> !</div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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</div>Marcy Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00113063372913436089noreply@blogger.com57tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5544545229559479557.post-43659324372806198612012-02-01T23:03:00.000+11:002012-02-01T23:03:49.118+11:00THE WEEKLY ROUND UP....<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">or what should be called....</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">well heres a post I half prepared earlier....</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: large;">Just found this in the drafts folder...so a weekly round up wasnt going to ever work! LOL</span><u><b><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><u>MONDAY</u></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> I made my first cards on the weekend with the Cricut machine my BEAUTIFUL firiend Rose gifted to me recently.... I did find it daunting and I had my L plates on I made two of these in five hours!!! LOL I did spend a bit of time figuring it all out and next time it'll be quicker I am sure!!! </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">Daniel and I start time sharing the New Percy Jackson book HEROs OF OLYMPAS and its 3 x the size of a normal Percy Jackson and hooked me three times faster!!! LOL Here we go saving the world again through the legends of the greek gods and with the help of the books modern day teenage heros !!! Timesharing your books with your 14 year old son is an interesting concept!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">This is what I found after the boys went to school this morning <br />
poor woody didnt stand a chance ....LOL</div><br />
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Connor had a huge weekend apart from doing this mighty "trade" with a neighbours kid to get the NERF weaponry he had a birthday pool party on Saturday arvo and sleepover saturday night , another pool party sunday morning and rollerbladed all sunday arvo!!!! I had a nap for him sunday afternoon but it didnt seem to help he missed his favourite show "Terranova" cause he went to sleep before it came on on the lounge and none of us could wake him up Jarred thought it was hilarious to keep trying though!!!<br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">TUESDAY...</span></b></div>Marcy Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00113063372913436089noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5544545229559479557.post-85844417120075447382011-12-16T19:13:00.000+11:002011-12-16T19:13:37.500+11:00AN EMBARESSING XMAS STORY THAT HAPPENED TO ONE OF MY FRIENDS...<div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Okay ....</div><div style="text-align: center;">Theres no friend ...</div><div style="text-align: center;">***sigh***</div><div style="text-align: center;">It was me! LOL</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Well, for two weeks I have been trying to win a radio comp </div><div style="text-align: center;">worth a $1000. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">I shoulda won it by now being </div><div style="text-align: center;">I have tried ringing like 50 000000000 times </div><div style="text-align: center;"> the competition is to listen and identify in order</div><div style="text-align: center;"> the 12 famous peoples voices. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">It<b> </b> is called...</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>THE 12</b> <strike>Days</strike> <b>DAVE's OF CHRISTMAS</b>...</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> Being that all the voices are Famous Davids....</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Dave's happens to be my expertise</div><div style="text-align: center;">I have lived with one for 20+ years</div><div style="text-align: center;">sadly he wasnt on the list and yep</div><div style="text-align: center;">... nope... </div><div style="text-align: center;">no luck</div><div style="text-align: center;">that's right </div><div style="text-align: center;">i<i>f there had been any luck..... I would have let the world know!!! </i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Anyway I have played each morning devotedly, </div><div style="text-align: center;">sitting next to the radio poised</div><div style="text-align: center;">( no bladder control comments here folks! ) </div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>finger over</b> <b>the redial button </b>!!!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Even though I have given everyone else half the answers </div><div style="text-align: center;">I was still thrilled for a box of chocolates and a $50 gift voucher .... </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Mr Connor Casanova ( 10 no less!) took the <i>chockies for his "girlfriend"</i></div><div style="text-align: center;">and then ...ten minutes after I won the Priceline voucher my hair dryer blew up!! </div><div style="text-align: center;">A bang, smoke N all so .... </div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>voucher = new hair dryer right?</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Then I had the<i> brain wave ...</i></div><div style="text-align: center;">I could use Daniels hairdryer and not buy myself one </div><div style="text-align: center;">& save money on xmas presents!!! </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">I'd use my voucher to buy my favourite "pretend" sister in law </div><div style="text-align: center;">and her two daughters a really lovely gift.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Sounds like a great idea eh? </div><div style="text-align: center;">A beauty gift Box for a fun girls night in with her gorgeous girls! </div><div style="text-align: center;">Manicure set, hair treatments, aromatherapy facial packs, </div><div style="text-align: center;">body lotions, scented candles, even the cutest wee little glitter toe </div><div style="text-align: center;">spaces for a pedicure and foot balm. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">I wandered aimlessly around thinking I'll chuck $20 worth in just to spice it right up</div><div style="text-align: center;">and I might even get a invite to hang with the "sisterhood" </div><div style="text-align: center;">as a mother with three boys and no local sisters I ***sob*** have none!</div><div style="text-align: center;"> That would be<i> awesome</i> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>I could pretend to be a girl...</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i> drink champagne and paint toe nails! </i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">So I shopped even a little harder </div><div style="text-align: center;">after all $ 50 dollars worth was FREE </div><div style="text-align: center;">wondrously FREE!!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Got to the check out and looked at the trolley and thought .....</div><div style="text-align: center;">hmmmm may have over done it a smidge.</div><div style="text-align: center;">I can barely see the checkout chicks face over the pile of pretty pink sparkly girlishness...</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">"Bleep bleep bleep"... she whizzes it all through... </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">I may have <i>overdone it, slightly.</i> </div><div style="text-align: center;"> I do a last minute paniced mental calculation </div><div style="text-align: center;">as to what is in the bank before my cards declined!!! </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">OMG that surely would be <b> </b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>t<i>he greatest embarrassment to ring up </i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i>a mountain of stuff and then... have your card declined due to lack of funds!</i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Especially as half the staff have helped me find stuff and ponder over products! </div><div style="text-align: center;">They've all watched me traipse backwards and forward admiring my dedication </div><div style="text-align: center;">to my<i> lovely thoughtful "grand plan"</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>.= $120.00 </b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>*** mass panic...mild hysteria *** </b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">oh <i>breathe</i> I'll just bring a couple things back at a later date..</div><div style="text-align: center;">It'll be find ....actually $70 for three people <i>is quite reasonable</i> !<br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"> I joke to her about how My Dave doesn't need to know </div><div style="text-align: center;">the WHOLE story...secret women's business </div><div style="text-align: center;">RIGHT? LOL</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><b>AND BESIDES...</b></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><b> </b><b>I have a gift $50 voucher </b></i></div><div style="text-align: center;">she waits for me to produce the voucher </div><div style="text-align: center;">I hand it over....</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"> <i><b>alleluia. alleluia.</b></i>....</div><div style="text-align: center;"> golden beams of <b>FREE</b> light radiate off my voucher </div><div style="text-align: center;">as I hand it over to her </div><div style="text-align: center;">and then...</div><div style="text-align: center;"> she says...</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>"ummm Miss I don't know how to tell you this </b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>but this voucher you won of the radio is </b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>for</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b> PRICE ATTACK ...we're PRCELINE.</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Oh ffff....PRICELESS I think! </i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>There is something more embarrassing </i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>than having your card declined </i></b></span>...</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">She goes on to say...</div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>"If you like I could you like me to take a few things off </b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>make the total a bit ....<i>smaller...maybe?"</i><br />
</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>so that's what I did ...</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>when really I just wanted the ground to open up </b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>and swallow me!!!<br />
LMAO!</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="color: #990000; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>HAVE A VERY </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #990000; font-size: x-large;"><b>MERRY N SAFE CHRISTMAS ALL!!</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div>Marcy Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00113063372913436089noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5544545229559479557.post-89327071818344559062011-12-11T16:24:00.000+11:002011-12-11T16:24:38.215+11:00GO AWAY CHRISTMAS... I M NOT READY!<div style="text-align: center;">Makin makin makin ...</div><div style="text-align: center;">PANIC stuff to finish </div><div style="text-align: center;">stuff to post </div><div style="text-align: center;">and oh CRUD ....</div><div style="text-align: center;">I was gunna make christmas cards to send this year!!! </div><div style="text-align: center;"><em>oh well scratch that ...</em></div><div style="text-align: center;">have to be NEXT YEAR <em>AGAIN!</em></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Christmas looming has given me the kick in the butt i need </div><div style="text-align: center;">more often than not to get moving! </div><div style="text-align: center;">In a week I can show you my bestest made xmas present ...</div><div style="text-align: center;">once it arrives and surprizes and dear friend of mine but till then </div><div style="text-align: center;">I'll have to leave you hanging I am making these whooers ...</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">NO MY CRAFTING HASNT LEAD ME TO DRINK....</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwPcLPd0YuuMYhytgZ8jcNc-Vvq50SH9dDs4RNUTKe2Sk0FNYti23aS6Y9I3mbtv_EejGlyDQHOZli7ZrrU4bW-gXWt4YCBFYQZGSUDJDPPv8Zx-ublw5UMKm2Zlg016CN5zsCuvnGmxME/s1600/IMG_6529.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240px" mda="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwPcLPd0YuuMYhytgZ8jcNc-Vvq50SH9dDs4RNUTKe2Sk0FNYti23aS6Y9I3mbtv_EejGlyDQHOZli7ZrrU4bW-gXWt4YCBFYQZGSUDJDPPv8Zx-ublw5UMKm2Zlg016CN5zsCuvnGmxME/s320/IMG_6529.JPG" width="320px" /></a></div><br />
<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-size: large;">And now you'll have to wait </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">for the big reveal .... LOL</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">These are just the prototypes but they are all but nutted out and are getting easier to put together. Despite everyones fears i hve been playing with sharp sharp bits of tin and big knives havent slipped once yet ...touch wood ***knock on her head*** probably because I did enter the ambulence and hospital number into the phone on speed dial!!! LOL Just in case! How very girl scout of me eh?</div><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;">I am doing some for both <a href="http://www.scraptivate.com.au/">SCRAPTIVATE </a>and I hope to create some </div><div style="text-align: center;">for my local markets in the new year.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><strong><span style="font-size: x-large;">In other matters this sunday.....</span></strong></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">For years I supressed the urge for my sons to bear toy arms. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Out of principles long since obliterated I had a being a <em>peace love n mung beans type</em> of attertude to parenting and raising my babies but... eventually I had to conside defeat when they'd make their connector textas in to rifles, pick up and hoarde gun shape sticks or chew their sandwiches in to pistols. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Then when all else failed they'd "Pow Pow " with their finger short of cutting their tiny little fingers off I couldnt do a thing about it! LOL</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">So it was a quick N slippery slope to HERE.... </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">to here....</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Today my "big" two the 14 and 10 year olds went to <br />
<strong><u>HUMANS vs ZOMBIES</u></strong></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><strong><u>NERF DART TAG</u></strong></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">This is a picture of my </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">***sob*** </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">once innocent boy Connor ...</div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The guns nearly bigger than him! <br />
He said "hurry up and take the photo mum this things HEAVY! "</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Oh at least I havent shown you the "costume" they adorn themselves with</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">camo paint, fake scars and blood.etc</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I just keep repeating to myself </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><em>"RELAX...its just glorified cowboys and indians!"</em></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Then in what I thought was an unrelated matter </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Daniel asked me could we plant and grow a mulberry tree.... I asked why exstatic he was thinking about his five food groups and nutrian....</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">"oh cause Mulburries when you squash em make the BEST FAKE BLOOD!!!"</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">OH sheshhhh!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">LOL</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><strong><span style="font-size: x-large;">:)</span></strong></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"></div>Marcy Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00113063372913436089noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5544545229559479557.post-54749286489309447502011-11-18T23:20:00.016+11:002011-11-18T23:32:18.665+11:00STORAGE MAKES THE WORLD GO ROUND ...WHAT THE???<div style="text-align: center;">Okay so it <br />
<em>may not make the world turn </em><br />
but storage for scrapbooker and/or arty folk alike<br />
is the bane of our existance. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
I think I ultimately spend as much time organising </div><div style="text-align: center;">( eg cleaning up after creative tornatoes!LOL) </div><div style="text-align: center;">as I nearly do making stuff. </div><div style="text-align: center;">WHO DOESNT LOVE A GOOD MAKEOVER!!!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
About a year ago<br />
I made over the boys Gaming central <br />
in our backroom not<em> jooshie</em> just tidy and </div><div style="text-align: center;">I found these CD storage units as I looked for <em>DVD storage!!!!</em></div><div style="text-align: center;">They were reduced from $25 to $2!!! <br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">I bought as many as I could fit in my trolley </div><div style="text-align: center;">( some would say that because thats what hoarders do...LOL </div><div style="text-align: center;">wash your mouths out those who just said that! ) </div><div style="text-align: center;">Anyways some I gave away and some </div><div style="text-align: center;">are earmarked for xmas presents for distant relos who still put their hands out </div><div style="text-align: center;">but this CD storage unit went <br />
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<strong><span style="font-size: x-large;">From This...</span></strong></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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<strong>{*** trumpets sound, crowds cheer***}</strong><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><strong><span style="color: #990000; font-size: x-large;">:)</span></strong></div>Marcy Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00113063372913436089noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5544545229559479557.post-79690181854309481002011-11-17T13:36:00.000+11:002011-11-17T13:36:59.949+11:00MY LATEST CREATIONS FOR SCRAPTIVATE ...<div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">As you who follow my blog would know by now </div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">I belong to the <a href="http://www.scraptivate.ashop.com.au/">SCRAPTIVATE</a> stores Design team . </div><div style="text-align: center;">For those of you new to my blog or the the paperart world</div><div class="" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">that means every month the lovely people from <a href="http://www.scraptivate.ashop.com.au/">SCRAPTIVATE</a> </div><div class="" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">in Western Australia </div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">send me a parcel of wonderous products from their shop in return </div><div class="" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">I create some thing for them to display in the shop.</div><div class="" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><em>SWEET GIG EH?!!! LOL</em></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">But for me this adventure has ment so much more I have </div><div class="" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">made wonderful friends on the other side of the country who </div><div class="" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">support and encourage me as no one in my immediate world does </div><div class="" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">and for that, I want to take a minute now to say </div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">Thankyou ... I am truly grateful!!!</div><div class="" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">Now....</div><div class="" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">LOL </div><div class="" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><strong><span style="font-size: x-large;"> on with the show...</span></strong></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">This is a canvas I made featuring a tree from the new range of WOW chipboard </div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">available now online or instore at <a href="http://scraptivate./">SCRAPTIVATE.</a> </div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><strong>PRODUCTS USED: 8 x 8 <a href="http://www.scraptivate.ashop.com.au/c/265203/1/canvases.html">Canvas</a>, printed cloth, <a href="http://www.scraptivate.ashop.com.au/b/2165863/1/wow.html">Wow Chipboard tree</a>, <a href="http://www.scraptivate.ashop.com.au/c/4271127/1/darkroom-door.html">Darkroom Door Steampunk stamp set</a>, <a href="http://www.scraptivate.ashop.com.au/c/150075/1/german-scrap-trims-and-embellishments.html">German Scrap embossed paper border,</a> INKS, <a href="http://www.scraptivate.ashop.com.au/c/265357/1/stamps.html">Stampington & co stamps</a> <a href="http://www.scraptivate.ashop.com.au/c/288653/1/lablanche-stamps.html">La Blanche stamps</a> <a href="http://www.scraptivate.ashop.com.au/p/1205099/claudine-hellmuth-studio-gesso-4oz.html">Claudine Hellmuth Studio Gesso </a>and a couple of my MOST FAVOURITE RANGER PRODUCTS- <a href="http://www.scraptivate.ashop.com.au/b/34847/1/tim-holtz.html">Tim Holtz Distress stain ink dabbers</a> and <a href="http://www.scraptivate.ashop.com.au/c/4090460/1/adirondack-paint-dabbers.html">Adirondak acrylic paint dabbers</a>. Along with those products I used some stamps out of my own stash.... Crafty Secrets art stamps, Stampington & Co stamps, cherrypie red rubber stamp, Grant and Friskers acrylic stamps. </strong></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMKya71IJJtUPnMiHFJRH2WWlnUaP68OPT9icF0_Cb7lsfYodzWe0OokqAVYzr08-VrwZPrXXWgawhuegk39FQTV_WMI9CVo_FpNlwztubTQwh5oQPefZWnZFjlL1QHWZKHt5H1Pip_Uen/s1600/BARE+TREE.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" hda="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMKya71IJJtUPnMiHFJRH2WWlnUaP68OPT9icF0_Cb7lsfYodzWe0OokqAVYzr08-VrwZPrXXWgawhuegk39FQTV_WMI9CVo_FpNlwztubTQwh5oQPefZWnZFjlL1QHWZKHt5H1Pip_Uen/s1600/BARE+TREE.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">The WOW chipboard tree was put through an machine called a Cuttlebug </div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">which can be used to either cut or emboss patterns onto paper or chipboard. </div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">In this case I used a tool called an embossing folder to press a wood grain patern into the tree.</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">The same devices and technique have been used to create the "readig boy"s frame.</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">Then layers of TIM HOLTZ DISTRESS INKS were used to give the naked chipboard some colour.</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">in addition to the canvases I made two postcard size images highlighting the versitility of a La Blanche. </div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">Not only do La Blanche stamps stamp a crisp neat image but here I have shown you can play </div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">with the image you would like them to present</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">so theres a few wee projects almost finished on their way ATCs an art canvas and the worlds longest "under construction" art doll is finished I just need to finish her "housing" LOL</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">So thats it ...if you've wadded your way </div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">to the bottom of this post </div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">I would like to say ...</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">Thankyou to you too! LOL</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div>Marcy Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00113063372913436089noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5544545229559479557.post-49887862250610236242011-11-14T17:15:00.000+11:002011-11-14T17:15:57.644+11:00A NEW ADDICTION & AN ART DOLL FINISHED...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8VJsJZcWUsQf7UPPpuEMs198WBdMPg3zDcxElrEXBsOkusmGtky7pDHvSh6MFx8ZGuKbWCf9dIDrWsLbEeIjNS1gq49uM7LX59Y2XLGH01jctgIBu3CtEv1iJWblMIx7qEw0wkME3nOGO/s1600/IMG_0151.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640px" nda="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8VJsJZcWUsQf7UPPpuEMs198WBdMPg3zDcxElrEXBsOkusmGtky7pDHvSh6MFx8ZGuKbWCf9dIDrWsLbEeIjNS1gq49uM7LX59Y2XLGH01jctgIBu3CtEv1iJWblMIx7qEw0wkME3nOGO/s640/IMG_0151.JPG" width="481px" /></a></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;">Sorry my poor dear neglected blog….</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;">Well I have neglected the old bloggeroo partially due to arty action </div><div style="text-align: center;">and in part because of my new addiction…. Reading! LOL </div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">It began about two months ago I think I may have mentioned the PERCY JACKSON series my 14 year old son Daniel got me hooked on … I thought it was just the greek mythology/modenday fantasy combination that had me because I have always LOVED Greek and Egyptian Mythlogy since the very first old classic movie they showed us at school…”Jason and the Argonauts” made in 1963 </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">My sister is responsible for my latest spell of obsessive reading. She sent Daniel a book called “THE HUNGER GAMES” by Suzanne Collins which has many great reviews and high recommendation including praise from Stephen King. I resisted reading it even though Daniel kept thrusting it under my nose say “go onnn you know you want to! “ and I read the back cover where it described children put into an arena to fight for their lives in an almost post apocoliptic world which to me sounded down right depressing so passed on it a number of times should have stuck with that thought. LOL</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;">Once I got into the first book I would say about 3 or 4 chapters in I was hooked . The descriptive nature of the writing, the emotional investment in the characters, the plot development , the possibility of good triumphing over evil… oh and lets not forget a good ol fashioned love triangle thrown in for good measure! I could barely put it down I read the first novel in about 4 days. Soon realising I was in trouble and would probably …die if I didn’t get my eyes into the next one post haste.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;">So when Daniel handed me the second novel yesterday at breakfast CATCHING FIRE I was excited thought it would make great bed time reading over the next week or so…. How wrong could I get I was totally suckered in from the first page and finish all 473 pages… by breakfast this morning!!!! (and still managed the family washing and to feed and water the children!) WOW what a great writer my eyes just gorged themselves on chapter after chapter… the twists and turns of fanstacy, romance and danger…. I have actually decided to not buy the last book until our next holidays where lolling about devouring novels is an accepted pass time …gee I hope I can wait that long!!! LOL </div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">THE MOVIE COMES OUT!!!!WOO HOO!!!</span><a href="http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/lions_gate/thehungergames/#send-to-a-friend"><span style="font-size: large;">THE HUNGER GAMES the movie trailer</span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"> I have been playing along a bit with a Facebook group called <strong>Artistic Journey Dolls</strong> </div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;">organised by the lovely Linda Baldock . </div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;">It involves the making, showing, sharing and swaping art dolls of all matter and description with other like minded people from the USA and England.</div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;">So I originally started with a wild Motherhood creature. I creature who had mutated to be the perfect mother part mother part lioness, 8 arms and eye in the back of head the wisdom to see all and know all. Sounded great then made my interptation and though… hmmm she is ment to be a lioness to “guard her cubs” …hmmm I put a maine on her….hmmm lions have maines NOT Lioness’s ….oh DOH!!! You dick marcy! ( I really did say something similar to myself cept bluer! LOL)</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;">The whole time I was making her she was speaking differently to me I couldn’t help thinking wood nymph probably because I was reading about a wood Nymph in my PERCY JACKSON novel . A Dryaid called Juniper and I just kept thinking about her . So as I looked at my theoyretical error with the lions maine I decide dang shes a wood nymph and I just didn’t know it! So I rip off some arms and add some twigs to her hair dress yer appropriately and look at her and that’s what she was all along! LOL How that animally enough! LOL Nymphs are known for their insights into nature and are quite prophetic in their role through mythology so the eye in the back of her head is fitting as she can see all clearly in her woods in all dirrections!</div> <br />
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<div style="text-align: center;">so she needs a name so I'll just call her “Juniper” </div><div style="text-align: center;">She is made from scratch and is mainly jointed with wire. </div><div style="text-align: center;">Shes created out of air dry paper clay, painted then covered in a synthetic fibre. </div><div style="text-align: center;">The idea being to create the look of a pelt type skin. </div><div style="text-align: center;">Her hair is made of wool, dolls hair and twigs from a halloween broom! LOL<br />
Her dress is chanel ....</div><div style="text-align: center;">ha ha just kidding its scrap leather I wet scrunched up </div><div style="text-align: center;">then let dry and wiped Tim Holtz distress Ink over to pick up the creases.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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Those gorgeous chicks at Scraptivate sent me nearly the whole range and stamps and all I was ecstatic. </div><div style="text-align: center;">So much so I've spent a month and half just playin with a couple of sheets!!! LOL </div><div style="text-align: center;">Well kind due if I am honest to a bit of scrappin slum, school holiday laziness and oh and a little of that "sheshh to do I have to cut it!" </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">I cut this DIECUT sheet into three component parts. Outer circle I didn't mount, just inked. circle frame I mounted onto about two cms high onto three layers of cork tile. Finally the inner circle , the paper with the numbers on it, I mounted onto a single layer of cork tile. now inside that was the centre circle (you keepin up! ;) ) which I kept aside and mounted my photo on sticking it down as the first layer on to the bazill cardstock.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I have also been on a bit of a trip combing the Internet for different ways to make flowers I try to share what I find on SCRAPTIVATES NING COMMUNITY FORUM the links for the tutorials to make more flowers are there. Here are the links for these flowers</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><a href="http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/6516810">Rhonna Farrer makes DIY flowers on "heidi swapp live!"</a> </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">this has the most awesome flower techniques on it only one issue ....it takes 20 minutes </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">to get to and its a bit flowery and fluffy </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">(shhh I think Rhonna Farrar drank WAY TO MUCH coffee this day! ) </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">but I think worth suffering alittle for your art! LOL</span></span></div><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"></span></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"></span></span><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;">This chick is AMAZING!!!! This is an awesome link to a very patient TALENTED paper quiller.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">If you speak Koren her blogs probably an absolute no brainer. If your like me, a very yokel Australian and English is your only language you will need some patience. There is a translator button that turns stuff into English but sadly somethings definitely lost in translation BUT the pictures are EASY to follow and there are probably alot more flowers to be learnt if you have the time to wander through her blog. </div><div style="text-align: center;">The flowers I looked at were DEFINITELY worth it.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">I am currently elbow deep in another favourite paper brand at the moment.... CRATE PAPER! They make the greatest versatile papers I have camo, wood grain and playful vintage papers here atm but you can use them in so many ways!!! SHHH secretly I think I love em at the moment because just between you and me they are a little sassafras lassy in their patterning! Yee gawds if a non scrapbooking person read that line they have no clue what I was talking about!!! LOL</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">I also have a staggering number of UFOs half done including two clay dolls, numerous layouts (***smacks forehead N blushes*** one I found dated back about 5years ago !!!) two art journals and a fortune telling machine. oh and a gift I just realise was started as a birthday present for someone last year and might make it to them for this birthday ... OMG so embarrassed its not like I work or have a social life so I have no excuses!!! ANYONE KNOW A CURE FOR <em><strong>GUNNADOITIS</strong></em>????? <strong>NO SERIOUSLY</strong> I am sick of getting the greatest ideas and being the slowest cab of the rank!!! Any one would think I was <strong>AD</strong><em>BLOODLY</em><strong>D</strong> oh why couldn't I have got the H factor I've seen how well that works for wannabee artists!!! shhh ...actually a lazy TVnBEJEWELLED addicted perfectionist I think ...LMAO</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Anyway ...shutting up now! </div><div style="text-align: center;">so much for my resolution not to make crackin long blog posts </div><div style="text-align: center;">cause I do suspect they are a turn off and no body ever reads to the bottom !!! </div><div style="text-align: center;">It felt good to have done a "proper" DT write up though!!!LMAO</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div>Marcy Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00113063372913436089noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5544545229559479557.post-33038700208735671212011-10-14T01:38:00.001+11:002011-10-14T01:44:20.427+11:00AMAZING CLASSES AT SCRAPTIVATE...<div style="text-align: center;"><strong>DO YOU LIVE IN WESTERN AUSTRALIA?</strong></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><strong>OR MAYBE YOU, LIKE ME </strong></div><div style="text-align: center;"><strong>WISH YOU HAD <em>A TARDIS</em> ...</strong></div><div style="text-align: center;"><strong>AND </strong></div><div style="text-align: center;"><strong>COULD ZIP OVER AND DO SOME OF </strong></div><div style="text-align: center;"><strong><em>THE MOST AMAZING ART AND SCRAPBOOKING CLASSES</em></strong></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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<div align="center"><strong></strong></div>Marcy Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00113063372913436089noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5544545229559479557.post-90138673822734155412011-09-01T12:56:00.000+10:002011-09-01T12:56:05.739+10:00GIVING THE MOJO A KICK START.....<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Some "inspired" sneeky peeks ...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><strong>Nothing like a clean up </strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><strong>to give you some motivation inspiration </strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><strong>and a <em>decent kick</em> in the Fancy pants!!! LOL</strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">The catalyst ...My lovely friend Rose Smith gave me her CRICUT!!! </div><div style="text-align: center;">She upgraded and wondering what to do with the older one...and she GAVE it to ME!!!!<br />
THANKING YOU ROSE ...YES SIRREEE! </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
<strong>**** <em>on knees bowing repeatedly chanting "were not worthy were not worthy!!!" ****</em></strong></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">So I decided to clear the decks make it some room. </div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">I also decided I was going to concentrate on making my creative space more practical, </div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">easier to use keep tidy ....bugger astetics. </div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
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</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Pretty and coordinated doesnt last long when<strong> <em>you cant find what the flock youre looking for</em>!!!</strong> </div></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Its working fantastically better it!! It has also given me another idea </div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">to move my paints down from where I have to go on tippy toes to reach them...</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
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</div></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;">The paper towel roll rod is already there I just have to find some cutlery drainers or even black plastic planters. The meat hook looking hanger thingys could be replaced by really big hinged album rings I buy from the Hunters newsagency or there are also ones exactly like those in the picture they sell at Bunnings for hanging tools up off your rafters in your shed.... <br />
***thinking***<br />
...now where can I move those glass jars too that I use a ruler to flick off the shelf <br />
and then skillfully endevour to catch them before the knock me on my noggin....<br />
no seriously ...thats how I get them down!!!! LOL<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">but for now I have washing to do </div><div style="text-align: center;">{<em>Grrr...</em> <em>always in the laundry!</em> }<br />
a "sick" kid to hunt back to bed and I thought I might try and get a bit of the three dolls <br />
I am working on done...<br />
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this one is going on a holiday to SCRAPTIVATE <br />
just as soon as she..... puts her arms and legs on!!!!<br />
Oh and some clothes too I spose shes a bit risque!!! <br />
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</div>Marcy Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00113063372913436089noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5544545229559479557.post-6879369154596162372011-08-29T01:08:00.000+10:002011-08-29T01:08:22.526+10:00BOOK WEEK SHANANIGANS N OTHER CON JOBs...<div style="text-align: center;">Every parent LOOOVESSS book week right?</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;">I try not to get too stress and try to encourage my kids because in my heart</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;">I can still remember book week as a kid. The thrill and built up, the pent up excitement of </div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;">being someone else and playing dress ups! </div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">The <em>specialness</em> of getting your costume all ready</div><div style="text-align: center;">And taking it to school in a plastic bag. I still remember getting dressed in the class’s storeroom </div><div style="text-align: center;">peeking out the store room window to see what’s seemed like hundreds of others </div><div style="text-align: center;">Nan’s, Pops, Mums and dads arriving. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">I remember my pride as my heart exploded with excitement when I’d see my mum </div><div style="text-align: center;">had managed to sneak away from work in her lunch hour to watch to me parade around with the bright cheery music blaring out the school PA </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><strong><em><span style="font-size: large;">Ahh those were the days ...</span></em></strong></div><div style="text-align: center;"><em><span style="font-size: large;">where it was <strong>“normal”</strong> fun and </span></em></div><div style="text-align: center;"><em><span style="font-size: large;">not at all <strong>obscene</strong> to dress up and <strong>STRUT!!!</strong></span></em></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><strong><em>Shhh... </em></strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;">Just between you and me...</div><div style="text-align: center;"><strong>keep it to yourself but I have a confession to make… </strong></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><em>***shameful blushing***</em> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">I always try and lead my kids to the character I want to make a costume for! LOL </div><div style="text-align: center;">The one that’d make a good scrapbook page or I know I have the bits for </div><div style="text-align: center;">or at least half an idea how to create!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">I have spent many a whole week sewing or gluing some wild idea up </div><div style="text-align: center;">to make my kids proud and maybe impress a few of my peer mummies. </div><div style="text-align: center;">This year I asked the boys a week in advance to get organised I was determined I </div><div style="text-align: center;"> was NOT staying up till 3am the night before “making” a change of mind outfit for anyone! </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">It’d been a long couple weeks with a number of things going on </div><div style="text-align: center;">but most draining was having Daniel at home for the last 10 days after his two day hospital </div><div style="text-align: center;">stay getting his tonsils’ out. I am a bit of a worrier and had used up a fair bit of mental energy fussing over him. Daniel had gone so willingly like a lamb to the slaughter into the tonsillectomy. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">I had managed, for his own good, to avoid going into much of the gorrey details. </div><div style="text-align: center;">Despite the details being quite fresh in my mind having had mine out just 7 years ago. His face had said it all as he came round from the surgery. His shocked and accusatory stare as he looked up at me and rasped “it hurts mum!” and I patted him and said “this is the worst bit, it’ll get better... just sleep” </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">Poor Daniel SLEEP HE DID for almost two whole days!!! </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">The experience you could say was pretty traumatic for him. </div><div style="text-align: center;">On the other hand it could be said, in some way s for his mother it was a bit of a <em>hospital Holiday!!</em> Periodically pushing aside the worry ... there were no other kids to look after, no fighting to sort out, no washing to do and no meals to get!!! I managed to sit and sleep in the comfy recliner next to his bed … transfixed by the first thing I had read in 10 years that didn’t include pictures!!! </div><div style="text-align: center;"><strong><span style="font-size: large;">A real life novel!!! </span></strong></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Well kind of … Daniel had made a pact with me </div><div style="text-align: center;">during our “hospital adventure” (his words!) I would read the first </div><div style="text-align: center;">and he would the 5th instalment of the “PERCY JACKSON” novels. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><em>A kid’s book</em> I hear you say…</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">oh it’s <em>so much more</em> let me tell you! </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">You can keep your Harry Potters. </div><div style="text-align: center;">The main character Percy not only battles his teenage emotions, dyslexia </div><div style="text-align: center;">and ADD but all the mythological creatures a boy can handle as the modern day son of the Greek god <span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow'; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poseidon" title="Poseidon"><span style="text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Poseidon</span></a></span>. Percy and his friend face death defying adventures as he is sent on many quests as he attempt to comprehend and marry both his modern and ancient worlds. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">As it turned out having always been a mad keen Greek mythology buff you could say </div><div style="text-align: center;">I found this book not only interesting, well written and easy to read, </div><div style="text-align: center;">you could say I found it … bewitching compelling even!!! I picked THE book up on </div><div style="text-align: center;">Thursday morning and barely put it down till Saturday afternoon when I finished it!!! </div><div style="text-align: center;">Within half an hour of finishing it we were at the DVD shop getting the </div><div style="text-align: center;">recently made movie version “THE LIGHTENING THIEF”</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Which for book readers,like myself </div><div style="text-align: center;"> was riddled with appallingly inaccuracies missing</div><div style="text-align: center;"> major chunks of the plot and shamefully mish mashed together </div><div style="text-align: center;">but for one 8 year old boy namely jarred... </div><div style="text-align: center;">“IT WAS THE BEST MOVIE EVER!!!”</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><strong>WHO WOULDN’T WANT TO BE A GREEK DEMIGOD </strong></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Who wouldn’t want to be PERCY JACKSON with his had winged shoes for flying! </div><div style="text-align: center;">A watch that turned into a shield, a magic pen that transforms into a sword </div><div style="text-align: center;">that battles 6 headed <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lernaean_Hydra">Hydras</a>, medusas and travels to other worlds???</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><strong>So Jarred HAD TO BE PERCY</strong> <strong>the easiest costume in the entire world...</strong></div><div style="text-align: center;">(Complete with GERMAN SCRAP WINGS SEWED ONTO HIS SHOES</div><div style="text-align: center;">… Could that count as a DT project Nat? LOL)</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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<strong><span style="font-size: x-large;">And Connor ...</span></strong></div><div style="text-align: center;">well I wouldn’t let him go </div><div style="text-align: center;">as an "army sniper with a bazooka" </div><div style="text-align: center;">Even though he pointed out that many history books </div><div style="text-align: center;">have “bloodthirsty soldiers” in them!!! </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">So defiantly he stated he would not need any of my help </div><div style="text-align: center;">whatsoever and he put his own costume together. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><strong>He went as…</strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><em><strong>{believe it …or not}</strong></em></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><strong><span style="font-size: x-large;">A NINJA MONK???!!!! </span></strong></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">(What the…HUH??!!)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">DISCLAIMER: I Marcy Smith most days being of sound mind </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">take absolutely no responsibility for the creation of this en some. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Especially not to the velvet "loin cloth" attached to the</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> plaited women's belt with safety pins!!!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><strong>PS. Cant wait till the next kid has something “removed”</strong></div><div style="text-align: center;"><strong>I have the second PERCY JACKSON book already packed in the hospital bag!!! We could go appendix's and tonsils look how many books there are and... </strong></div><div style="text-align: center;"><strong>that's just the first series!!! LOL</strong></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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Marcy Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00113063372913436089noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5544545229559479557.post-3556638282867324942011-08-26T13:05:00.004+10:002011-08-26T19:45:30.383+10:00SOMETHING TO CROW ABOUT....<div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">OMG creative papercrafter and assemblage genii exists in the backwaters of Wagga Wagga. !!! <br />
I met a lovely and most talented lady yesterday <a href="http://somethingztocrowabout.blogspot.com/">BARB THOMAS</a> . <br />
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An ATCer, maker of mini art books n shrines, collector of kitch amazingness, <br />
designer of Golliwogs, bears and doll maker extraordinaire!!! </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Hiding her creative light under a bushell she was introduced to me Via <em>everyones favourite quirky art goddess</em> <a href="http://atclindab.blogspot.com/">LINDA BALDOCK</a>. It also turns out that Barb is quite good friends with SCRAPTIVATE teacher and designer <a href="http://ko-ok.blogspot.com/">KELSEY O'MULLANE</a>. Even to the point where they've been to visit each other!!! </div><div style="text-align: center;">WOW how freaky how art can indeed make the world a smaller place <br />
We are here in country NSW, Linda's in Sydney and Kelsey in Western Australia!!!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Barb is a beautiful and warm giving personality. A well travelled woman, shes been mentored by some huge artists including Micheal De Meng. Shes won medals, trophies and been published for her spectacular dolls in cloth, paper and polymer clay. Shes even had Australia Post make a series of stamps featuring her dolls!!! All that and ... shes a <strike>hoarder</strike> collector after my own heart!!! <br />
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I was instantly at ease, as she hugged me on my arrival at her front door. She then took me on a two hour tour of he house on which, I ran out of adjectives to describe how much I was enjoying her hand made inspiration. I felt like ALICE in WONDERLAND. Hubby asked me that night what my meeting with Barb was like and I was lost for adaquate words all I could say was "utopian" ***GRIN***</div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Her beautiful heritage house to begin with, is a huge art work in itself! From the huge stained glass entrance barb made herself to the beating heart of the home... a stunning skylight lit floor to ceiling timber kitchen. A feast for the eyes every nook and cranny bursting with intriguing much loved collections. <br />
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Creatively I felt reduced to a single cell <span id="hotword"><span id="hotword" name="hotword" style="color: #333333; cursor: default;"><span style="color: black;">amoeba</span></span></span> but <em>when I grow up</em> Barbs home is exactly what I hope my grandchildren find me in!!! The "look around" included entry into her hallowed creative space!!! I felt quite honoured as she let me wander around looking and gasping! LOL So many things to look at including her latest metal art doll assemblage in the process of coming to life Then more gasping as I hit the mother load of eye candy ...her extensive rubber stamp collection!!! I always knew I had an unnatural obsession with Stampington stamps but it was never fully realised till I went to Barb's! LMAO </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">Barb's creative space, once upon a time a bedroom, is as big as my lounge room. At least that's what is felt like! It had all the character of the greatest art studio with supplies galore wall to wall, paintings, artifacts of all descriptions hanging as organically as if they had grown up the walls themselves. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Barb apologised, like we are all are programed to do by dull polite society, about the mess . She needn't have! Unlike my room at home it had a floor to be seen! To me this room was <em>sublime</em> as its messy was more than I could ever aspire to. I say messy <em><strong>definitely like its a good thing! </strong></em> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><strong>Its my belief that a neat creative space reflects an unproductive mind</strong> </div><div style="text-align: center;">and Barbs could never be called that! </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">I wondered if her inventiveness actually had an off switch cause the arty farty passion in our creative conversation had no OFF. On a personal level I know she has a husband some kids and a granddaughter and she knows my family is, my husband and kids but we didn't have much time </div><div style="text-align: center;">for all the more <strike>"boring"</strike> everyday stuff! LOL</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Well I am starting to embarrass myself with all this gushiness , I do have a small tendency to get a little over excited on occasion (be warned Barb! LOL ) I had a lovely visit and look forward to making a mess with and getting to know my new friend a little better in the future. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Please have a look and leave some love at Barb Thomas's blog...</div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://somethingztocrowabout.blogspot.com/">somethingz to crowabout</a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><strong><span style="font-size: x-large;">:)</span></strong><br />
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</div>Marcy Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00113063372913436089noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5544545229559479557.post-38784044869966635952011-08-23T16:21:00.000+10:002011-08-23T16:21:57.644+10:00I WONDER...<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;">I sometimes wonder if my boys really know just how lucky they are </div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;">to come home to a mother every afternoon? </div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;">Forget all the PC correct reactions we are expected to come out with</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"> HONESTLY...</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;">Does it really benefit them, enhance their quality of life? </div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;">More than all the expensive after school stuff like sports, guitar lessons etc? </div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;">We are not poor and I would never complain about how fortunate I am to be able to have a choice. Sometimes its ridiculous but we get by on one wage but at what sacrifice. </div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;">Nothing changes here we cant afford to renovate or fix things. </div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;">7 years after moving in we still have our bright yellow wood panelled kitchen </div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;">the taps in the bathrooms have had a dozen husband changed washers but still need replacing, the side fence has surpassed all our expectations and is still falling down the roof still has a leak </div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;">that we pretend is magically going to fix itself. </div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;">Is it really worth all those high and mighty principles </div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;">I carried about before we got married about staying home for the kids. Or do I find myself </div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;">questioning things cause one of a dinosaur bred of mum who stays at home occasionally venturing out </div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;">only to feel awkward in amongst all our career driven/money earning peers.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;">I was a latch key kid and I turned out okay ...right?! </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">oh here come my whirling dervishes now!!! Its an all familiar sound...</div><div style="text-align: center;">They are probably a block away but I can hear their voices yelling calling out goodbyes and then their footstep getting closer until they begin to thunder! I here the frantic competition to the door. </div><div style="text-align: center;">The sound of lunch boxes bouncing up and down the herd of elephant has just stampede in </div><div style="text-align: center;">and both bodies have hit the door with a massive bang!!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"> The door flies open it sounds like a herd but they are only two boys A 10 year old and an 8 year old. Oblivious to me standing there they are fighting about who "ditched" who on the way home. </div><div style="text-align: center;">Yelling over the top of each other, its who's gunna dob on who....</div><div style="text-align: center;">oh oh there goes the tranquility the squealing has started they both frantically push </div><div style="text-align: center;">through the door trying to be first to the remote!!! </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">I hope they know as much as I love being here for them. How despite knowing how fortunate I am, I feel lonely here by myself some days. I hope later if they feel like we could have given them more </div><div style="text-align: center;">They know how we have tried to do the right thing for them. </div><div style="text-align: center;">I still guilty I feel as I still wonder if they are missing out on things they should have. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">"Mum MUM guess what Gus has got a new xbox 360"</div><div style="text-align: center;">ironically Connor says to me as he whips of his shoes and socks.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">" oh <em>goodo</em> I say and...<em>how bout a thankyou for the lovely afternoon tea"</em> </div><div style="text-align: center;">I say pointing out strawberries biscuits and milk</div><div style="text-align: center;">and he grins cheekily </div><div style="text-align: center;"><strong><em>" thank you"</em></strong></div><div style="text-align: center;">he says as he runs past me </div><div style="text-align: center;">attempting to rub his dirty sock in my face!!!!</div><div style="text-align: center;">oh crud </div><div style="text-align: center;">Mr 14 has just walked </div><div style="text-align: center;">now the three ring circus really begins!!! </div><div style="text-align: center;">LOL</div><div style="text-align: center;">oh crap more irony this just came on the radio ...maybe theres the answer </div><div style="text-align: center;">seriously this just came on... too tooo spooky!</div><div style="text-align: center;">Awesome song though!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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( the year I started primary school! LOL)</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><strong><span style="color: #990000; font-size: x-large;">:)</span></strong></div>Marcy Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00113063372913436089noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5544545229559479557.post-77976446130587173592011-08-22T14:27:00.000+10:002011-08-22T14:27:01.521+10:00URMMM YEP......<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">When we have our scrapbookers hat on we are often prompted to journal </span><span style="font-size: large;">our predictions next photos of our children. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Last night when I said</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> "Jarred go get ready for bed " </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">and came out and saw this ensemble </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">just casually watching TV </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">like wearing </span><span style="font-size: large;">an <em>Afro wig</em> is the naturalist thing to do!!! </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> That when I thought, </span></span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">surely my predictions </span></span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">were validated yet again ....</span> </span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">it'll be some sort of a crime against humanity </span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">if this kid doesnt go into.. </span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><strong>Theatre!!!</strong></span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">You saw it here first folks Jarred goes to Hollywood! </span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">When his face adorns billboards and Broadway. </span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">when he pulls out his pocket change </span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">and he buys his <em>ridiculously good looking for her age</em>, mother her first mansion </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">and his dad his first fleet of Harley's </span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">you'll be able to say to your kids and grand kids </span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><strong><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: x-large;">:)</span></strong></div>Marcy Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00113063372913436089noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5544545229559479557.post-65182217169582449682011-08-17T22:10:00.000+10:002011-08-17T22:10:50.250+10:00A LITTLE CLEAN UP.....<div style="text-align: center;">I have a desktop on my computer much like the messy desktops you can NOT see in my office ...</div><div style="text-align: center;">Covered in in an eclectic mish mash of stuff. My PC desktop infuriates my IT husband who has given up commenting but I believe he thinks it looks like <em>image scrambled eggs</em> !!!</div><div style="text-align: center;">so, </div><div style="text-align: center;">Even though it all makes perfect sense to me...</div><div style="text-align: center;">I have decided to upload all the random images I have cloggin up <strike>my</strike> <em> our</em> computer.</div><div style="text-align: center;">Hopefully if I post them here for your to perusal and viewing pleasure, </div><div style="text-align: center;">and so I can also PIN IT them. </div><div style="text-align: center;">By placing them on my PINTREST boards I can then delete them off my computer....</div><div style="text-align: center;"><em>what sort of an animal is a PIN IT or Pintrest you ask?</em></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #351c75;">What is </span><a href="http://pinterest.com/about/"><span style="color: #351c75;">PINTREST</span></a><span style="color: #351c75;">?</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #351c75;"></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #741b47; font-size: x-large;">Pinterest is a Virtual Pinboard.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>(</strong>very much like where I once had a memory I now have the 5 notice boards that fill my kitchen...<br />
a case of art imatating life yet again!!! any doubt I am a visual person! LOL<strong>)</strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #741b47;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #741b47;">Pinterest lets you organize and share all the beautiful things you find on the web. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #741b47;">People use pin boards to plan their weddings, decorate their homes, and organize their favorite recipes.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><em><strong>( OR in my case</strong>....hoarde random images that may inspire a scrapbook page,</em></div><div style="text-align: center;"><em>a crafty thing or even a "someday" tattoo<strong>)</strong></em></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #741b47;">Best of all, you can browse pinboards created by other people. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #741b47;">Browsing pinboards is a fun way to discover new things and </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #741b47;">get inspiration from people who share your interests.</span> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><em><strong>(TRANSLATION ...</strong> another way to loose a day</em></div><div style="text-align: center;"><em> dreaming and steal images that you like from others boards!!! <strong>LOL)</strong></em></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><strong>Its simply a matter of signing up and adding a link button to your web browsing page </strong></div><div style="text-align: center;"><strong>Hmmm that's a bit techno speaky ...</strong></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><strong><span style="color: #351c75;">put simply...</span></strong></div><div style="text-align: center;"><strong><span style="color: #351c75;">Here's an example of how it goes for me...</span></strong></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><strong>I have a little <span style="color: #351c75;">button </span>on my google toolbar that says <span style="color: #351c75;">PIN IT</span> </strong></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><strong>I <span style="color: #351c75;">see something</span> I like and I <span style="color: #351c75;">click pin it</span> </strong></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><strong>A message pops up and asks what pin board I would I like to save the picture </strong></div><div style="text-align: center;"><strong>I click the appropriate option </strong></div><div style="text-align: center;"><strong>(eg inspiration, shopping, links to remember to read later when I have time!) </strong></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><strong>and <span style="color: #351c75;">it saves it</span> to a storage file in cyberspace and best bit<span style="color: #351c75;"> its FREE!</span></strong></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><em><a href="http://pinterest.com/about/">CLICK HERE</a></em> if you would like to officially know more</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #990000;"><strong>COOL HUH?!!! </strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><strong><span style="color: black;">HOARDERS, LIKE MYSELF</span></strong></div><div style="text-align: center;"><strong><span style="color: black;">EVERYWHERE... ARE UNITING TO CLUTTER UP CYBERSPACE!!! LMAO!</span></strong></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3H8JkgMjUvgjuKImfxKghXWz0MxvbeJaNrGIrwo6s_1ahBUdjb_LAk__U7HIAxWRlMa8y8u1RRJzEYhGwmRlksKfOFwt_3tPhCoLIuw2gjUeEwNCWDBtJnjgIQ4-CErd2MoJH7Z1va1qp/s1600/kd-lang-hallelujah1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320px" qaa="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3H8JkgMjUvgjuKImfxKghXWz0MxvbeJaNrGIrwo6s_1ahBUdjb_LAk__U7HIAxWRlMa8y8u1RRJzEYhGwmRlksKfOFwt_3tPhCoLIuw2gjUeEwNCWDBtJnjgIQ4-CErd2MoJH7Z1va1qp/s320/kd-lang-hallelujah1.jpg" width="212px" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">WHO I 10 years ago who'll have been most likely to turn for....</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">KD LANG (still luv her even though shes gone all alnatural!)</div><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9_EMFCu5PH63bD_quLpd_HuJ7HX-dPFZWEwiAjVxdVQGGWHL0tV78O83OzaQwfE56cQpcmJuXa1nP6OlMsICrzN3xdshLgGC3IfyjWibhKHRYQD4jxaHbRQ_y3z0Dcc28X3GzxnG7NKQ3/s1600/greer__9__gallery__600x400.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="266px" qaa="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9_EMFCu5PH63bD_quLpd_HuJ7HX-dPFZWEwiAjVxdVQGGWHL0tV78O83OzaQwfE56cQpcmJuXa1nP6OlMsICrzN3xdshLgGC3IfyjWibhKHRYQD4jxaHbRQ_y3z0Dcc28X3GzxnG7NKQ3/s400/greer__9__gallery__600x400.jpg" width="400px" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">awesome picture of Germaine Geer back in the day</div><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRkBQ5EZO8gTRi-pTRz7TFZDAnIyySGDpMUhtED5A0CYkbrhzDTm_OQzWIB8Riuxj55No18moHs7QJH5MBdJSJjYKHtOCbzog4EsHyLHOUhdEAaMrWN8FaR1hfhJYUskKAF-tKS9ST3dsT/s1600/LIKE.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320px" qaa="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRkBQ5EZO8gTRi-pTRz7TFZDAnIyySGDpMUhtED5A0CYkbrhzDTm_OQzWIB8Riuxj55No18moHs7QJH5MBdJSJjYKHtOCbzog4EsHyLHOUhdEAaMrWN8FaR1hfhJYUskKAF-tKS9ST3dsT/s320/LIKE.jpg" width="258px" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">THE hairstyle I WANT!!! different colours though</div><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ASGII42jtQ8/TkuV7l4tLUI/AAAAAAAAE1E/k858yIU1I8M/s1600/LV+louis+vuitton+women+boots+new+style.bmp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240px" qaa="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ASGII42jtQ8/TkuV7l4tLUI/AAAAAAAAE1E/k858yIU1I8M/s320/LV+louis+vuitton+women+boots+new+style.bmp" width="320px" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">just because I cant wear em doesnt mean a girl cant dream!</div><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-sg7kDHLf1fI/TkuWVErWNgI/AAAAAAAAE1I/Xuv6RddmF4w/s1600/Golf_ball.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320px" qaa="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-sg7kDHLf1fI/TkuWVErWNgI/AAAAAAAAE1I/Xuv6RddmF4w/s320/Golf_ball.gif" width="312px" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">just in case anyone needs a golf ball on their next fathers day card ...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">dont know how or why its spining!!! LOL</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Handy to have ready for a Facebook posting! LOL</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">TRY THEM.... </div><div style="text-align: center;">BUY THEM at...</div><div style="text-align: center;"><strong><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.scraptivate.ashop.com.au/c/288653/1/lablanche-stamps.html">SCRAPTIVATE</a></span></strong></div><div style="text-align: center;"><strong>( never let it be said I missed an opportunity to plug awesomeness!)</strong></div><div style="text-align: center;"><strong>along with these designery stamps I love Stampotique, Darkroom Door<em> </em></strong></div><div style="text-align: center;"><strong><em>andddd Mr Holtz come on down..</em>Tim Holtz/ Stampers Anonymous stamps!</strong></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I have used this image with medusa etc on ATCs in the past</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I have a desire to pursue my two favourite mythologies Ancient Greek and Egyptian </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">by one day going to greece and egypt just about a week after I win lotto I reckon.... ;) </div><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirH8wii9J76REBVMZRIIo5hOvzljWaI-J0iClxTa2GQ8ExIK1WYLvR8Rj-b8EQwXXWkZVsfkU6eoDunayJRs6c-52wDB1t5p-eJSJlwvgRl40Zo8hLgTI5HiVXifxMDXxiJLVlRuhrzjXQ/s1600/mosaics1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640px" qaa="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirH8wii9J76REBVMZRIIo5hOvzljWaI-J0iClxTa2GQ8ExIK1WYLvR8Rj-b8EQwXXWkZVsfkU6eoDunayJRs6c-52wDB1t5p-eJSJlwvgRl40Zo8hLgTI5HiVXifxMDXxiJLVlRuhrzjXQ/s640/mosaics1.jpg" width="425px" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Feel free to correct me if I am wrong (n sorry if I am!) but <em>I think</em> this is a Laurie Mika artwork or definately inspired by! LOL my baddd! </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I loved the colours, patterns and textures of this clay tile mosaic... </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">yep...***sigh*** again with the ...one day I want to do this!!!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Isnt it beautiful!!!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I emailed her ages ago ( like a year or more ago! LOL)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> and asked her if I could put up an image or two along with a link to her work....</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">HERE IT IS... </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.mikaarts.com/">ARTIST LAURIE MIKA</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I have to say PLEASE PLEASE go and look at this website </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">your eyes will have an absolute feast looking at the exquisite work Laurie does </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">*****envvy admire...turning green!)***</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> I think last year she did a retreat here in Australia Heart N Soul </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">(shhh too xxxy for this no incomer sahm ***sob**)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">okayee....</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> well... </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">***realise N giggle*** </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">...enough office mess avoidance for one day..... </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div>Marcy Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00113063372913436089noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5544545229559479557.post-19067130296961829902011-08-15T15:06:00.000+10:002011-08-15T15:06:19.719+10:00WADING MY WAY THROUGH A TSUNAMI OF 1/2 DONE ARTIFACTS....<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrai9IYUDQhlz1WJQf6ujtFQmcUDim3Cyuh3OYaGZCbnE0OCubvlNT-L64MgFK-Idz4hb5gxKf88bQ0OnqjQHhqcGLncaIEF47nrLr5Q5_c2lWe_ldo0sphuKDSoJ6PRySBDXarmV8M7-7/s1600/DSC_0360.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640px" naa="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrai9IYUDQhlz1WJQf6ujtFQmcUDim3Cyuh3OYaGZCbnE0OCubvlNT-L64MgFK-Idz4hb5gxKf88bQ0OnqjQHhqcGLncaIEF47nrLr5Q5_c2lWe_ldo0sphuKDSoJ6PRySBDXarmV8M7-7/s640/DSC_0360.JPG" width="428px" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><strong>PRODUCTS USED:</strong> COFFEE BREAK DESIGNS MDF SHRINE, 12x 12 Chipboard, <a href="http://www.scraptivate.ashop.com.au/c/275021/1/metal-sheets.html">TEN SECOND STUDIO METAL SHIM apple green</a>, UTEE<a href="http://www.scraptivate.ashop.com.au/c/265359/1/embossing-powders.html"> clear and gold</a>, Beads, <a href="http://www.scraptivate.ashop.com.au/c/271282/1/fusible-film.html">ANGELINA FIBRES</a>, leather twine, <a href="http://www.scraptivate.ashop.com.au/s/Keyword/Smooch%20/SearchType/2/SortItem/1">Smooch Accent inks</a>, <a href="http://www.scraptivate.ashop.com.au/s/Keyword/LUMIERE%20/SearchType/2/SortItem/1">LUMIERE ACRYLIC PAINT halo blue/gold</a>, GOLDEN GLASS MEDIUM Perfect pearls mica paint and <a href="http://www.scraptivate.ashop.com.au/p/388218/dimensional-magic.html">Dimensional Magic</a> ....oh and lots of double sided tape glue tissue paper and prayer!!!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Originally I started this in December 2010 round a table in a caravan in Sydney... LOL The greatest weekend in my recent memory the weekend I spent with my friends Natalie Wolfe, Owner and legend friend of <a href="http://www.scraptivate.ashop.com.au/">SCRAPTIVATE</a> and Jenny Burns wondrous FABBO AWESOME chick babe friend. We were bunking in and working the <a href="http://www.scraptivate.ashop.com.au/">SCRAPTIVATE</a> booth in Sydney for the Sydney Papercraft festival. So after a hard day at the show what did these birds of a feather do but ....play with arty scrappy bits and pieces till the early hours of the morning ...or until other<em> baahumbugs</em> in the cabin yelled at us to stop giggling and go to bed. </div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Sadly it seems too long ago! I haven't felt so much a part of the scrappy sisterhood since!</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Okay ....back t the story.... the challenge was to make stuff with what ever materials/mediums that came back for the night from the show's demonstration table . I took a <em>shine </em>to this little MDF shrine made by COFFEE BREAK DESIGNS so I began experimenting! </div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCoFxPHi6lqAbMgJlPUPUITO-F8oZW5RVoHk8uVw6X9hIgM-iBl1pCRgmBD7A82DQmgIf9QtmMcjErNY8bq0_oj6AOecg8G3NY_w1wwhWZtQ8JlN5Pr7WBSyXXOJIrT2g_9hk0Fplv11bm/s1600/cbd5.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320px" naa="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCoFxPHi6lqAbMgJlPUPUITO-F8oZW5RVoHk8uVw6X9hIgM-iBl1pCRgmBD7A82DQmgIf9QtmMcjErNY8bq0_oj6AOecg8G3NY_w1wwhWZtQ8JlN5Pr7WBSyXXOJIrT2g_9hk0Fplv11bm/s320/cbd5.jpg" width="238px" /></a></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Inside the COFFEE BREAK DESIGN shrine I began to play with layers of UTEE enamel (similar to a clear embossing powder) and beads of a bead trim. whacked it in and heated it up with a heat gun and added some Angelina crystalina fibres (which is like a melt able cellophane) and it all looked "oceany" for want of a better word ! LOL</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">So I went with it ...</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Created a little mermaid from collections images. Created her some hair with thread I got from unraveling the ribbon from the bead trim I took the beads from, then painted it with a gorgeous orange smooch ink.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVx4YCzRyeQMXtkkZQCAktneyyZ6sUEecgkAq-qId2l1RfaBbQbM8u-Eh7gyTocOREE9bYxozMCcqXbsWAaBjcZiS-t13G0t5ljB0UXhVrx_dDowGvGUBz2GMdeTLLF5OmLx4hNcXCI95E/s1600/xxxtremeclsup72.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320px" naa="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVx4YCzRyeQMXtkkZQCAktneyyZ6sUEecgkAq-qId2l1RfaBbQbM8u-Eh7gyTocOREE9bYxozMCcqXbsWAaBjcZiS-t13G0t5ljB0UXhVrx_dDowGvGUBz2GMdeTLLF5OmLx4hNcXCI95E/s320/xxxtremeclsup72.JPG" width="280px" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">When I got home from Sydney eventually I picked it back up with a mind to finish what Id started.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Then the ideas snowballed... I added some authentic Tuross Heads sea shells (where we holiday down the south coast) and some coral looking stuff that came home in the same bucket of shells. I added a bit of perfect pearls paint and some Dimensional magic. Then it started to get interesting...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">the story gets alittle hazy here cause sometime stuff just happens....</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">but some how I was playing with my delightful CUTTLEBUG and I decided to try and create some of my own embossing plates and before you knew it a wave was being built to surround the little shrine.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">It worked but looked too busy with my mermaid environment and took away from the mermaid shrine. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">So I refined it and decided to add glue and keep the "plate" stuck to metal shim...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">NOTE: a family that plays together stays together ...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Daniels in the background painting War hammer 40 k miniature models! LOL</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
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See the back of the coffee break shrine as its being positioned to see how it fit </div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">before being stuck to the chipboard wave in the photo bellow...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPkX3FOL5_RKktm4hV2uA6xYQIw-3JtJl0u4_7Duwfj_AJodtEzTFK03aIpjr13LvrfUfa2jzakTDx6LhtRhKnLFZnKL0bM_eVfYxX__wJJDdkzWpbGpINRDYjQd0yupJCcyb6J5pBj9C7/s1600/IMG_5364.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240px" naa="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPkX3FOL5_RKktm4hV2uA6xYQIw-3JtJl0u4_7Duwfj_AJodtEzTFK03aIpjr13LvrfUfa2jzakTDx6LhtRhKnLFZnKL0bM_eVfYxX__wJJDdkzWpbGpINRDYjQd0yupJCcyb6J5pBj9C7/s320/IMG_5364.JPG" width="320px" /></a></div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I really wanted a quote to hammer into the metal but couldn't find one either short enough </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">or if they were short enough they weren't mermaid mysterious enough! LOL</div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Am I a bower bird for just loving that shiny luminous shimmer around the mermaid!</div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">Its a lovely keepsake from the Sydney trip even though the closest we came to water was flying there on the way or the browny coloured lake beside the pavilion at Panthers world of entertainment! </div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">Some how I think I was the only one round there seeing mermaids...</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">oh then again maybe after a big night and a couple of beverages at Panthers .... NAHHHH LOL </div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">Well back to the mountain of unfinished bits and pieces here a fortune telling machine a marionette doll, a dozen layouts one, a layout dated 2006... </div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">Its so old ...I cant even remember the name of the basic grey I was using! LOL,</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div>Marcy Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00113063372913436089noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5544545229559479557.post-37461363220523615822011-08-10T21:35:00.000+10:002011-08-10T21:35:49.853+10:00DOLLYs away...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;">I also recently made an Artist's Trading card </div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;">on the SCRAPWARE ATC base, to accompany my first paper clay doll. </div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
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</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;">Love the bases for creating "heavy duty" ATC's. </div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;">This was created in layers chipboard painted background first, embossed art doll stamp on the top and sandwiched in between.... glow in the dark embossing enamel on transparency!!! she's quite eerie in the dark especially after you charge her up right under the fluorescent desk lamp! LOL </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;">Then over the top of the layers, another layer, this one of Dimentional Magic </div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;">with sparkly Mica powders sprinkled and dispersed into the wet gloss layer.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">The doll as seen above and the ATC are currently on their way to New Jersey USA! </div>Marcy Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00113063372913436089noreply@blogger.com1